There are always people who are resistant to change, and it may be true that the bigger the change the more people resist it.
That's one expert's response to news that a recent poll shows 53-percent of those asked think artificial intelligence will "destroy mankind."
Michael Garfield, who's "High Tech Texan" radio show is heard on several stations in Texas, says such fears may mirror the reaction to the widespread use of the automobile more than 100 years ago, or the wildfire increase in cell phone use less than 20 years ago.
"I want to go back years and years, remember when the automobile was invented, I mean Henry Ford came up with an idea that nobody knew what it was."
But this is the age of the internet and instant social media, and it's becoming obvious that A-I is a fundamental change among some basic concepts of how we live and work.
"It is a paradigm shift that is in some aspects unknown, but in some aspects scary, but in some aspects it can help our processes in life," Garfield counters.
Indeed, the number of Americans who have used AI chatbots (about 85%) say they've found them at least reasonably helpful, and expectations are that chatbots will grow more powerful in the coming years.